2023
- Steven Gougherty
Nutrient Allocation and Conservation Mechanisms in Trees: Intraspecific Variation, Reproductive Costs, and Global Scale Comparisons
Advisor: Templer
- Brandon Güell
Explosive Breeding and Its Consequences for Critical Adult and Embryo Behaviors in Gliding Treefrogs
Advisor: Warkentin
2022
- Tara Miller
Effects of Climate Change and Other Anthopogenic Impacts on Plant Phenology and Wildlife Health in North America
Advisor: Primack
2021
- Julie Jung
Developmental Changes in Vibration Sensing and Vibration-Cued Hatching Decisions in Red-Eyed Treefrogs
Advisor: Warkentin
- Javier Mendez Narvaez
The Role of Phenotypic Plasticity in Reproductive Colonization of Land By Frogs: Urea Excretion and Mechanisms to Prevent Ammonia Toxicity During Terrestrial Development
Advisor: Warkentin
- Isabella Muratore
Morphology, Neuroanatomy, Brain Gene Expression, and The Evolution of Division Oof Labor in The Leafcutter Ant Atta Cephalotes
Advisor: Traniello
- Alexandra Vivelo
The Pattern and Drivers of Fungal Decomposer Succession
Advisor: Bhatnagar
2020
- Jamie Harrison
Water and Carbon Uptake and Soil Nitrogen Cycling in a Northern Hardwood Forest Under a Changing Climate
Advisor: Templer
- Lucille Zipf
Effects of Climate, Habitat, and Conservation Management on an Aerial Insectivore, the Tree Swallow, and its Insect Prey in Massachusetts, USA
Advisor: Primack
2019
- Evan Kristiansen
The Causes and Consequences of Mimicry in Limenitis Butterflies in Western North America
Advisor: Mullen
2018
- Stephen Decina
Biogeochemical Cycling of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Across the Greater Boston Area
Advisor: Templer
- Amanda Gallinat
Effects of Climate Change and Invasive Plants on Autumn Phenology in Massachusetts, USA
Advisor: Primack
- Jesse Delia
Ecology and Evolution of Parent-Embryo Interactions in Neotropical Glassfrogs
Advisor: Warkentin
- Mustafa Saifuddin
Relationships Between Soil Microbial Physiology, Community Structure and Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Temperate Forest Ecosystems
Advisor: Finzi
2017
- Caitlin McDonough
Climate Change, Species Loss, and Spring Phenology in and Around Acadia National Park, Maine
Advisor: Primack
- Kristina Cohen
Anuran Hatching Mechanisms and Their Role in Adaptive Plasticity
Advisor: Warkentin
- Rebecca Sanders-DeMott
Interacting effects of growing season and winter climate change on nitrogen and carbon cycling in northern hardwood forests
Advisor: Templer
- Darcy Greer Gordon
Evolutionary Neurobiology of Exceptionally Polymorphic Ants
Advisor: Traniello
- Allison Gill
Coupling of Belowground Biogeochemical Cycles and Plant Carbon Allocation Strategies Highlight Global Patterns in Resource Limitation and Ecosystem-Level Responses to Global Change
Advisor: Finzi
2016
- Patrick O. Sorensen
Effects of winter snowpack on microbial activity, community composition, and plant-microbe interactions in mixed-hardwood temperate forests
Advisor: Templer and Finzi
- Nathan W. Fuller
Pathophysiology and recovery of myotis lucifugus affected by white nose syndrome
Advisor: Sorenson
2015
- Katherine Faust Stryjewski
Speciation Genomics and Morphological Evolution in an Extraordinary Avian Radiation, the Lonchura Munias of New Guinea and Australia
Advisor: Sorenson
- Cassidy D’Aloia
Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Connectivity within a Coral Reef Fish Metapopulation
Advisor: Buston
- Nathan Rycroft
Identifying Population Structure and Local Adaptation in the American Lobster Using Behavioral, Morphometric, and Genetic Techniques
Advisor: Atema
- Rose Zheng Abramoff
Phenology and Allocation of Belowground Plant Carbon at Local to Global Scales
Advisor: Finzi
- Tristan Lubinski
Insights into the Early Evolution of NF-Kappab Signaling based on Computational Analyses of Cnidarian Genome and Transcriptomes
Advisor: Finnerty
2014
- Elizabeth Braun de Torrez
Bats, insects, and pecans: habitat use and ecosystem services of insectivorous bats in a pecan agroecosystem in central Texas
Advisor: Sorenson/Kunz
- Jeffrey DaCosta
Behavioral, morphological, and genomic analyses of population structure in brood parasitic indigobirds (Vidua spp.)
Advisor: Sorenson
- Ysabel Giraldo
Neuroanatomical and neurochemical correlates of senescene and social role in the ant Pheidole dentata
Advisor: Traniello
- Tristan Lubinski
Insights into the early evolution of NF-Kappab signaling based on computational analyses of cnidarian genome and transcriptomes
Advisor: Finnerty
- Andrew Reinmann
Effects of winter climate change on carbon and nitrogen losses from temperate forest ecosystems
Advisor: Templer
- Aryn P. Wilder
Spatial, ecological, and genetic correlates of the geographic expansion of an infectious disease, white-nose syndrome in bats
Advisor: Sorenson/Kunz
2013
- Nicholas Crawford
Genomic analysis of macro- and micro-evolution in the reptilia
Advisor: Schneider
- Poliana C. Lemos
Variations in carbon fluxes lead to resilience of carbon storage in New England forests
affected by the hemlock woolly adelgid at a centennial time scale
Advisor: Finzi
2012
- Edward Brzostek
Proteolytic enzyme activity in soils: Interactive effects of soil temperature and moisture, substrate availability, and mychorhizal fungi
Advisor: Finzi
- Elizabeth R. Ellwood
Climate change and species phenology at three trophic levels
Advisor: Primack
- Charles M. Kieswetter
Cryptic diversity, landscape genetics, and diversification in the Pristimantis w-nigrum species complex
Advisor: Schneider
- Caroline Polgar
The effects of climate change on the phenology of plants and insects of Massachusetts
Advisor: Primack
- Heather C. Shull
Demography, selection, and comparative molecular evolution in brood parasitic indigobirds (Vidua spp.) and their firefinch (Lagonosticta spp.) hosts
Advisor: Sorenson
- Anne M. Socci
Impact of winter climate change on nutrient and water uptake in a northern forest ecosystem
Advisor: Templer
- Pablo Jarrin-Valladares
Preview Species boundaries in bats: A philosophical, morphometric, environmental, and phylogenetic analysis of the genera Anoura, Carollia, and Sturnira
Advisor: Kunz
2011
- Myra C. Hughey
Integrating species interactions and spatial dynamics to explain insect distribution and abundance on a patchy resource
Advisor: Warkentin
- Marianne Susan Moore
Ecological immunology in little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus; Chiroptera) affected by white-nose syndrome
Advisor: Kunz
- Mario L. Muscedere
Social organization, development, and functional neuroplasticity in the ant genus Pheidole
Advisor: Traniello
2010
- Michael S. Caldwell
The use of vibrational information by red-eyed treefrogs for communication and antipredator defense
Advisor: Warkentin
- Jonathan David Reichard
Seasonal activity and energetics of Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) in south-central Texas
Advisor: Kunz
- Kari Teruya Ryder Wilkie
Biodiversity and distribution of the ants of Amazonian Ecuador
Advisor: Traniello
2009
- Louise C. Allen
Immunity, reproductive success, and stress in cave- and bridge-roosting Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis): Implications for conservation
Advisor: Kunz
- Amy Louise Mertl
Species richness, community structure, and social organization in Amazonian Pheidole
Advisor: Traniello
- Mariana Munoz-Romo
The dorsal patch and chemical signaling in the long-nosed bat, Leptonycteris curasoae, in Venezuela
Advisor: Kunz
- Justin C. Touchon
Developmental ecology and reproductive mode plasticity of a Neotropical treefrog: Interacting abiotic and biotic environmental effects over three life stages
Advisor: Warkentin
2008
- Adam M. Reitzel
Population genetics and life history evolution in the sea anemone family Edwardsiidae
Advisor: Finnerty
- Vikki L. Rodgers
Impacts of Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) invasion on plant diversity and soil nutrient cycling in northern hardwood-conifer forests
Advisor: Finzi
- James C. Sullivan
Bioinformatic and molecular analyses of the Nematostella genome reveal a mixture of ancient conservation and rapid recent evolution
Advisor: Finnerty
2007
- Jason W. Horn
Nightly and seasonal behavior of bats in the aerosphere assessed with thermal infrared imaging and NEXRAD Doppler radar
Advisor: Kunz
- Bram V. Lutton
Characterization of the epigonal organ-ovary complex of the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea: A model for reproductive-immune interactions
Advisor: Ian Callard
- Maureen E. Mazza
Homeobox evolution: Insights from homeobox clusters in the basal metazoan, Nematostella vectensis
Advisor: Finnerty
- Madhava Meegaskumbura
Molecular systematics, evolution, and ecology of Sri Lankan shrub-frogs (Rhacophorinae: Pseudophilautus)
Advisor: Schneider
- Suyama Meegaskumbura
Systematics, taxonomy, and biogeography of Sri Lankan shrews (Mammalia: Soricidae)
Advisor: Schneider
- Abraham J. Miller-Rushing
Impacts of climate change on the phenology of temperate forest plants and birds in Massachusetts and Japan
Advisor: Primack
- William Oweke O. Ojwang
Patterns of resurgence and anthropogenic influence on trophic sources and interactions among fishes of Lake Victoria, Kenya
Advisor: Kaufman
- Marcio R. Pie
Morphological evolution in a hyperdiverse clade: The ant genus Pheidole
Advisor: Traniello
- John Benjamin Rinehart
Roosting ecology of Neotropical tent-making bats in eastern Ecuador
Advisor: Kunz
- Joseph F. Ryan
The evolution of animal body plans: Genomic evidence from the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis and other early-branching metazoa
Advisor: Finnerty
- Joseph St. George
Characterization in the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea, of conserved sex determination genes
Advisor: Callard
2006
- Daniel V. Calleri
Sociality, disease, and life history in termites
Advisor: Traniello
- Polly Campbell
Evolution and ecology of Southeast Asian fruit bats in the genus, Cynopterus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae)
Advisor: Kunz
- Gloriana Chaverri Echandi
Ecological correlates of social strategies in the neotropical tent-making bat Artibeus watsoni
Advisor: Kunz
- Ryan J. Harrigan
Global phylogeography of the mallard complex (genus Anas): Speciation, hybridization, and lineage sorting
Advisor: Sorenson
- Kevin Yana Njabo
Phylogeography and systematics of montane forest birds in Cameroon
Advisor: Sorenson
- Christopher S. Richardson
Intraspecific variation in metabolism and thermoregulation in Eptesicus fuscus (the big brown bat)
Advisor: Kunz
- Seung Jae Won
Vitellogenin: A potential biomarker for xenobiotic exposure in a vertebrate (Chrysemys picta) and invertebrates (Elliptio complanata and Caenorhabditis elegans)
Advisor: Callard